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Wednesday, April 9 Evening Cable News Ratings: CNN Finishes 2nd in the Demo During Primetime

Adweek

Hannity won the 9 p.m. hour for FNC.

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Tackle 70% Wasted Spend with N-Gram Laddering in Amazon Ads [The PPC Den Podcast]

Ad Badger

SUBSCRIBE You’re listening to the PPC Den Podcast. In this episode, Im diving into a. Read More The post Tackle 70% Wasted Spend with N-Gram Laddering in Amazon Ads [The PPC Den Podcast] appeared first on Ad Badger.

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Lester Holt Makes 1st Public Remarks Since Stepping Down From NBC Nightly News

Adweek

Holt will join Dateline NBC full-time after departing Nightly News this summer.

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Why and how

Seth Godin

Let’s get rid of science class in school. Instead, beginning in kindergarten, we could devote a class to curiosity and explanation. A class that persistently and consistently teaches kids to ask why and to answer how. The unacceptable single-word answers are “because” and “magic.” Curiosity is a skill, and it can be taught.

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State of AI in Sales & Marketing 2025

AI adoption is reshaping sales and marketing. But is it delivering real results? We surveyed 1,000+ GTM professionals to find out. The data is clear: AI users report 47% higher productivity and an average of 12 hours saved per week. But leaders say mainstream AI tools still fall short on accuracy and business impact. Download the full report today to see how AI is being used — and where go-to-market professionals think there are gaps and opportunities.

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The Seattle Storm Made Marketing Its No. 2 WNBA Draft Pick Top Priority

Adweek

The Seattle Storm makes marketing its No. 2 WNBA Draft pick a No.

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The Stack: Major Platform Innovations

Exchange Wire

This week, we recap platform innovation, legal shake ups, and evolving ad strategies shaping the digital media landscape. Todays MadTech covers Metas Trial With Instagram, increased energy demands from AI datacentres, and price hikes by Chinese sellers on Amazon After a [.] The post The Stack: Major Platform Innovations appeared first on ExchangeWire.com.

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Businesses struggle to identify and capture revenue opportunities

Martech

MarTechCharts regularly highlights data of interest to marketers and marketing operations professionals. Source: Conga and Ascend2. Click to enlarge. Revenue inefficiencies are silently draining millions from companies, according to a report from Conga and Ascend2 Research. The report “ The Revenue Imperative: Overcoming Efficiencies to Maximize Growth (registration required) surveyed more than 600 business decision-makers across the U.S. and UK.

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Beauty Marketing Mastery: Katie Gohman’s Vision for Olaplex

Adweek

The haircare brand CMO talks balancing social narrative with brand storytelling.

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The 14 best HubSpot updates from March 2025

Martech

With 132 updates launched in HubSpot last month, weve identified the 14 most impactful changes to optimize your teams performance and strategy. HubSpot’s March updates focus on smarter automation, deeper insights and improved customization. From AI-powered workflow enhancements to more flexible forecasting tools, these updates will give you greater efficiency, better data visibility and more control over your CRM.

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Thursday, April 10 Evening Cable News Ratings: Fox News Shows Experience an Off Night

Adweek

MSNBC saw strong results for its 8 p.m. to midnight slate of shows.

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Retail media advertising: How e-commerce is becoming AdTech’s next frontier

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HubSpot Marketing Hub is moving up to better serve larger marketing teams

Martech

There were two inescapable messages on Thursday at HubSpot Spotlight in New York. Neither message should come as a big surprise to marketers, but for martech vendors, they speak to opportunities. The first message is AI. Its everywhere, its maturing quickly and its not going to stop. If anything, AI will go from the thing everything is talking about to another fundamental technology users expect and probably dont even notice.

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TikTok Fave Duolingo Boosts YouTube Shorts Viewership 430% in One Year

Adweek

It's also experimenting with long-form videos on the channel.

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Validity acquires email optimizer Litmus

Martech

Validity announced yesterday its purchase of Litmus, an email optimization and testing solutions provider. The acquisition aims to create a more all-encompassing platform for marketers to manage the entire lifecycle of their email campaigns. Validity’s existing suite of products, including DemandTools, BriteVerify, Everest, Sender Certification and GridBuddy Connect, focuses on CRM data management, email address verification, inbox deliverability and avoiding spam filters.

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Streaming Ratings, Week of March 10: Disney+ Sails to the Top Courtesy of Moana 2

Adweek

The Top 10 Overall Streaming chart only had two non-original titles.

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The GTM Intelligence Era: ZoomInfo 2025 Customer Impact Report

ZoomInfo customers aren’t just selling — they’re winning. Revenue teams using our Go-To-Market Intelligence platform grew pipeline by 32%, increased deal sizes by 40%, and booked 55% more meetings. Download this report to see what 11,000+ customers say about our Go-To-Market Intelligence platform and how it impacts their bottom line. The data speaks for itself!

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Virgin Atlantic navigates a sea of woke for a rainbow in the clouds

More About Advertising

A new campaign from Virgin Atlantic is something of an event in UK adland: Its Branson-esque trolley dollies summed up the ’90s, since when it’s woken up to the joys of woke.* The last cross/trans dressing opus from Lucky Generals frightened a few horses but was really no more shocking than an old episode of … The post Virgin Atlantic navigates a sea of woke for a rainbow in the clouds first appeared on More About Advertising.

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TikTok Lays Off Staff in Its US-Based Ecommerce Unit

Adweek

The units performance has come under close scrutiny in recent months.

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Canva’s Visual Suite upgrade unifies campaign planning and creation

Martech

Canva this week launched Visual Suite 2.0, the company’s biggest product launch since 2013. It’s a significant overhaul designed to integrate design and productivity tools into a single platform. Visual Suite 2.0 gives marketers faster and more efficient tools for planning, creating and executing campaigns. Here’s what’s new: Visual Suite in One Design Visual Suite in One Design lets users create different marketing materials within a single design space, from presentatio

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Ticker: Gayle King Opens up About Her Spaceflight

Adweek

The CBS Mornings co-host will soar into the cosmos on Monday morning.

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5 Ways You Can Win Faster with Gen AI in Sales

Incorporating generative AI (gen AI) into your sales process can speed up your wins through improved efficiency, personalized customer interactions, and better informed decision- making. Gen AI is a game changer for busy salespeople and can reduce time-consuming tasks, such as customer research, note-taking, and writing emails, and provide insightful data analysis and recommendations.

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Meta breakup threat: What marketers need to know

Marketing Tech News

The current threat to Meta of a potential enforced breaking-up of the company will move into an important phase on April 14, as the Federal Trade Commission’s antitrust trial against the social media giant begins in Washington. The legal battle challenges Meta’s historic acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp, and could have significant implications for marketers.

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Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav Receives $51.9 Million Pay Package for 2024

Adweek

Zaslavs pay increase follows another round of layoffs at CNN earlier this year.

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The State of Ad Curation in Q1 2025

Playwire

Key Points Curated deals are rapidly growing, with a little over 30% of Playwire's inventory now sold through curation in Q1 2025 One SSP leads the pack with 48% of their inventory sold through curated deals, showing curated CPMs running 2-3x higher than open market Despite higher CPMs, the industry still lacks concrete data on whether curation actually delivers incremental revenue for publishers SSPs are positioning themselves as the new curators in a post-cookie world, challenging DSPs' tradit

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Heidi Cooley Gets Cozy at Lovesac as its First Chief Brand and Marketing Officer

Adweek

Chief marketing officer (CMO) Heidi Cooley is leaving Crocs to join Lovesac as its first chief brand and marketing officer, effective April 23.

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10 Ways to Leverage Buyer Signals and Drive Revenue

In today’s ultra-competitive markets, it’s no longer enough to wait for buyers to show obvious signs of interest. Instead, sales teams must be proactive, identifying and acting on nuanced buyer behaviors — often before prospects are fully ready to make a purchase. In this eBook from ZoomInfo & Sell Better, learn 10 actionable ways to use these buyer signals to transform your sales strategy and close deals faster.

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Yahoo Academy 2025 Culminates with High-Stakes Pitch-Off for Australian Charity ‘Musicians Making a Difference

Exchange Wire

Yahoos 14th annual Yahoo Academy program has come to a close, culminating in a high-stakes Pitch-Off event for Australian youth charity Musicians Making A Difference (MMAD). Thirty emerging leaders from across the Australian and Singapore media and marketing industry responded to [.] The post Yahoo Academy 2025 Culminates with High-Stakes Pitch-Off for Australian Charity ‘Musicians Making a Difference appeared first on ExchangeWire.com.

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How Enterprise LinkedIn ABM Drives Measurable ROI with Karrot.ai

Single Grain

Enterprises face unique challenges when implementing account-based marketing (ABM) strategies on LinkedIn. While LinkedIn offers the potential to convert high-value accounts, demonstrating clear return on investment (ROI) often proves challenging due to complex buying cycles and multiple stakeholders. This is where Karrot.ai comes in. This is a strategic ABM tool used to create targeted ads on LinkedIn.

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McDonald’s fights cost pressures with French slices of life

More About Advertising

It’s always diverting to see how others live so this is how they consume McDonald’s in France, courtesy of TBWAParis. Apparently there are more McDs in France than any other country in Europe, a shock for those of us brought up to believe that the French began every meal with a souffl followed by an … The post McDonalds fights cost pressures with French slices of life first appeared on More About Advertising.

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Trade-Offs: How 10 Brands Are Navigating Tariff Turmoil

Adweek

In the past couple of weeks, President Trump has announced a sweeping set of tariffs, only to delay most of them for 90 days after the stock market crashed in […]

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Signal-Based Selling: How to Leverage 4 Key Buying Signals

As prospects define their problem, search for solutions, and even change jobs, they are generating high-value signals that the best go-to-market teams can leverage to close more deals. This is where signal-based selling comes into play. ZoomInfo CEO Henry Schuck recently broke down specific ways to put four key buying signals into action with the experts from 30 Minutes to President’s Club.

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The WIR: EU Considers Digital Ad Tax Amid Trade Wars, People Magazine Launches a TikTok-Like App, and Havas Reports Q1 Growth

VideoWeek

In this week’s Week in Review: Ursula von der Leyen floats a tax on digital ad revenues amid trade wars, People Magazine launched a TikTok-style app, and Havas reports growth in Q1. Top Stories EU Considers Digital Ad Tax Amid Trade Wars The European Union is considering a range of measures in response to the tariffs introduced by US president Donald Trump, including a tax on digital ad revenues which would target the US tech giants, the European Commission’s president Ursula von der

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